KTRK: Houstonians meet to discuss ending red-light cameras

More than 200 people gathered at a town hall meeting Tuesday night called by the Houston Ministers Against Crime to come up with a way to shut it down for good, KTRK-TV (Channel 13) is reporting:

(Participants) discussed why they felt the cameras, which were voted out on last November’s election, then recently turned back on after a lengthy legal battle, are a violation of Houston’s citizens’ civil rights. That is according to those opponents.

They plan to take steps to turn the cameras off for good. …

“I haven’t a clue why people don’t just ask us to put it on the agenda,” said (Houston City Councilwoman Jolanda) Jones. “It didn’t take a vote to get the red light cameras of the people. It doesn’t need a vote of the people to get rid of it. We could put on city council next week and we could vote for it.”